Barbados

  • February 26, 2013
    819

    What about us?

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – Are we ready and open for business? Recently, Dr. Patrick Antoine, chief economic advisor to the new Grenada Government declared this was now so in his country. You would be aware that Grenadians also had the opportunity last week to speak with the vote. A mere two days before Barbadians headed to the polls, their regional…

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  • February 26, 2013
    878

    Dr Worrell: Keep pace with the competition

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – The way to outrun the competition in the international market is to improve productivity. This was the advice given by Dr. Delisle Worrell, Governor of Central Bank of Barbados (CBB). Delivering his address at the opening ceremony of the Week of Excellence at the Grande Salle yesterday, he highlighted, “Foreign exchange markets are highly competitive, and…

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  • February 25, 2013
    769

    Still tough road ahead

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The 2013 election is now over and the votes have been counted, disappointments and jubilation expressed and we have begun to return to normalcy. The Prime Minister is busy choosing his Cabinet and in due course the senators will be chosen and the debate on the annual Estimates of Government Revenue and Expenditure will begin. This year…

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  • February 25, 2013
    869

    Stuart ‘on par’ with Arthur

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – PRIME MINISTER FREUNDEL STUART has been able to achieve levels of support on par with former Prime Minister Owen Arthur. This is the view of the Democratic Labour (DLP) which, in a statement from its general secretary George Pilgrim yesterday, said Stuart had shown in two years an ability to muster as much support as Arthur, who…

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  • February 22, 2013
    1,013

    Ruling Party wins general election

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbadian voters kept with tradition and provided the incumbent party with a second consecutive term in power following a nerve jangling general elections here on Thursday. According to the preliminary results, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) won 16 of the 30 seats in the elections with the remainder going to the main opposition Barbados Labour Party…

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  • February 22, 2013
    837

    Democracy prevails

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbadians have elected a new administration to govern this country’s affairs for the next four to five years. Once again, Barbadians can congratulate themselves on a peaceful elections period, devoid of the violence, rifts and fierce territorial demarcations that characterise other jurisdictions in the region and beyond. Bees, Dems, independent or apathetic, we all have to live…

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  • February 21, 2013
    981

    EDITORIAL: The right and duty to vote

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THIS IS THE DAY and now is the moment. Barbadians will cast their vote today to elect an administration to govern the island for the next five years. As a people, we need to appreciate the importance of the vote and not pass on the opportunity, only to complain at a later date, whether in whispers or…

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  • February 21, 2013
    827

    Voters choosing a new government in Barbados

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbadians Thursday began casting their votes in a general elections that political observers say could be historic if the ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) fails to win a second five year term in power. No government since the island attained its political independence from Britain in 1966 has failed to obtain a second consecutive term, but…

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  • February 21, 2013
    854

    CRFM Ministerial Sub-Committee on Flyingfish to meet in Port of Spain, Trinidad

    “…the flyingfish has been recognised as the single most important small pelagic species in the southern Lesser Antilles.” BELIZE CITY, BELIZE; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013 – On Friday, 22 February 2013, the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) will convene a meeting of seven Caribbean countries currently harvesting the Eastern Caribbean flyingfish (scientific name: Hirundichthys affinis), in Port of Spain, Trinidad…

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  • February 20, 2013
    808

    Barbadians gearing to elect new government

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Feb 20, CMC – Barbadians go to the polls to elect a new government on Thursday with opinion polls predicting a victory for the main opposition Barbados labour Party (BLP). But Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is telling voters that his ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) ,which won the 2008 general election by an 20-10 margin, is still the…

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